striking it big with bounty hunting you have to be realy lucky, most of the times you get some coins for the worth of around 10 dollars , and most of the times they become worthless before they even hit a exchange lol.
People don't make money on Bounties anymore. They need to learn how to trade coins for money. 
Topic: REQUEST FOR GAS FEE TO GET PAID ARE SCAM. - page 3. (Read 407 times)
That's right, some airdrops and bounties are needed gas fees and KYC documents recieve the tokens. Bounties are going with agreements. But they are all not legit. The most airdrops look like scams on these days. They are getting gas fees and KYC documents from it. Then you have to be careful with airdrops and bounties right now. Do your own research about the project before you participate in airdrop or bounty campaigns.
Nowadays, even those projects that do not ask for gas fee or anything at all such as KYC are mostly scams also. So those that are requesting gas fees are more scam than the rest. It is not advisable to take unnecessary risks with these kinds of projects. Always remember also that there are only a small number of projects that are really pursuing a legitimate objectives. The rest are merely taking the opportunity to ride with the current crypto waves.
You can't just judge them for doing or asking for gas fee from hunter. You can't simply conclude that project is scam because they are asking for help? What if the project is just out of budget. Remember how bitcoin ask for assistance before? They even asking everybody to help them with donations and help as well. Youre post is attacking those project that might not included lile the OP mentioned.
It won't be fair to compare a token airdrop with bitcoin. Bitcoin is a mineable coin with it's own blockchain based on the community. Creating a token is a easy task that requires just a few lines of codes. If they don't even have a fee to send airdrop tokens, how could they achieve anything from their project. If the team don't know what they are doing, they should promise people with airdrops but rather work to make their project a success first.
You can't just judge them for doing or asking for gas fee from hunter. You can't simply conclude that project is scam because they are asking for help? What if the project is just out of budget. Remember how bitcoin ask for assistance before? They even asking everybody to help them with donations and help as well. Youre post is attacking those project that might not included lile the OP mentioned.
OP is lucky to have gotten 1 with value out of 10 from airdrops that asks for gas fee. It could be easily 1 out of 100 for other hunters.
Airdrops spread like wildfire before. You see a lot of twitter accounts and many telegram channels with thousands of followers sharing the airdrop forms. A newly created airdrop can get hundreds and thousands of registered participants in just an hour.
How did they get the contact of airdrop participants, by the way?
Spreadsheets, emails, fill-ups/sign-ups.
Asking from people for particular amount to be sent as gas fee has been in existence for quite some time and people have learnt their lessons from it, so if it happens now it will definitely not work for so many people, because of their past I'll experiences.
I use to see a lot of these give-me-gas-fee airdrops when I was a very active hunter back in 2017. I also call them scamdrops because gas fees should be handled by the team distributing it. If they cannot even take care of the gas fees, then that means they have no funds to develop their own project.
Thanks for the info, it gives me more understanding. Actually, I rarely participated in airdrops, so I just know the term "scamdrops".
But I saw several bounties required "gass" to claim the rewards. If it was applied in airdrops, I doubt the bounties are also scams.
Do you think all "gass required for claiming rewards" are scams, mate?
striking it big with bounty hunting you have to be realy lucky, most of the times you get some coins for the worth of around 10 dollars , and most of the times they become worthless before they even hit a exchange lol.
Why would a project ask it's hunter a gas just to be able to deposit your reward?
Some projects ask for gas to prevent people with multiple accounts from participating because the multiple account users won't want to be sending small gas from all the wallets they used for the airdrop/bounty. 
Every person who is requesting money promising to give you more is probably a scammer, and everyone should be alert.
An airdrop which requests gas fee... or a project that request eth to pay for the bounty hunters, or someone who asks "send me 0.1 eth and I will send back 1 eth" or anything like that...
Stay away from anything like that, because probably it is just a scam.
An airdrop which requests gas fee... or a project that request eth to pay for the bounty hunters, or someone who asks "send me 0.1 eth and I will send back 1 eth" or anything like that...
Stay away from anything like that, because probably it is just a scam.
There were many such projects in 2017. And from many received coin, truth most of them so and remained in purses and their more not sell. It's garbage. So Yes, it's most likely scammers. I remember only a few bounty campaigns that were asked to send a little Ethereum to receive payments and everything went fine, even on the exchanges after that listed.
Anything and everything that asks you to pay at first are scams. If you are no completely sure about what you are doing, don't even send a penny to anyone. There are many fake airdrops that collects your emails, social profiles and access to different functions in your social profiles and some even dare to ask private keys from the unsuspecting users. If you need to participate in such airdrops, just create a dedicated email, wallet and social profiles for them.
Don't even bother to send them your email in exchange for airdropped coins. That is another bait that you are taking. Even if you say that you are creating a special email for that airdrop alone, that is still a waste of your time. The best thing to do with these airdrops is to completely ignore them. One of the reasons why they are thriving despite the history of airdrops which are mostly failures is that a lot of newbies give their attention to them.
Anything and everything that asks you to pay at first are scams. If you are no completely sure about what you are doing, don't even send a penny to anyone. There are many fake airdrops that collects your emails, social profiles and access to different functions in your social profiles and some even dare to ask private keys from the unsuspecting users. If you need to participate in such airdrops, just create a dedicated email, wallet and social profiles for them.
Well, those days were just part of your memories now. Since last year, many bounties were not really profitable and realizing it until now. The remaining existing bounties, don't hope for something with them.
They can be from known and unknown companies and the procedure that they conduct is the same as others so the results are likely to be the same. There's still a few that pays but I wouldn't bother or waste my time of joining them.
They can be from known and unknown companies and the procedure that they conduct is the same as others so the results are likely to be the same. There's still a few that pays but I wouldn't bother or waste my time of joining them.
How did they get the contact of airdrop participants, by the way?
Spreadsheets, emails, fill-ups/sign-ups.
This has been a long time, and working in a telegram group, even many on behalf of large or well-known projects to look for victims. I've also seen posting on the original Facebook, so fraudsters make accounts like original project and comment on original project post that contains fake airdrop. Need to be alert.
I have participated some airdrops before and to be honest it is just like bounty ,
It is gone now you would only get some useless token for your effort,
But if I am not mistaken back then I also tried this gas fee for their token and I could say out of 10 I manage to get at least 1 airdrop that actually have a value.
The truth is that if you only participate in the airdrop as a normal person with an account you will not earn a bit. Airdrop is a race of a group of people or people with hundreds of accounts. It is gone now you would only get some useless token for your effort,
But if I am not mistaken back then I also tried this gas fee for their token and I could say out of 10 I manage to get at least 1 airdrop that actually have a value.
I have participated some airdrops before and to be honest it is just like bounty ,
It is gone now you would only get some useless token for your effort,
But if I am not mistaken back then I also tried this gas fee for their token and I could say out of 10 I manage to get at least 1 airdrop that actually have a value.
It is gone now you would only get some useless token for your effort,
But if I am not mistaken back then I also tried this gas fee for their token and I could say out of 10 I manage to get at least 1 airdrop that actually have a value.
this is common in airdrops. maybe the amount requested by them is small, but still this is very problematic. there are many bounty hunters who were fooled. and more sadly this is not a new problem. this problem has existed since popular airdrop first. but there are still many who are fooled.
yes this is common in projects that distribute airdrops. they say to get the prize we have to send the GAS fee. but in the end none of the tokens entered into the pallet. this is a scam, and very detrimental they just want to get a free token. that's why I don't recommend that you participate in projects like this.
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